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New Look, Better Interaction, and New Widgets!

This is kind of a long post, but that’s because we’ve had a pretty big release. Based on your feedback, we’ve made some significant changes to the Sitebuilder. We’ve added a few new widgets, and have updated our existing widgets to help make creating a website even easier, quicker, and more fun. Here’s what you’ll see:

WIDGET INTERACTION

Easy-to-find widgets

The widget icons are bigger; no more squinting.

We've reorganized the widget categories to make widgets easier to find. The new categories are:

Basic - The most commonly used widgets

Multimedia - For all your photo, video and music needs

Widget Collections - Collections of widgets offered by other companies

Community - Social features like chat rooms, forums, or translators

Forms & Appointments - Easy-to-add forms and appointment schedulers

Maps - Show your location on a map

Ecommerce - Sell products from your online store

Better widget explanations

Roll your mouse cursor over a widget icon and you'll see a tooltip with a short description of the widget. This way, you can see what it does before dropping it onto your site.

More accurate drag-and-drop

When you’re dragging a widget into your site, our improved drop zone shows exactly where your widget will appear on the page.

New Widget Categories

New Widget Interaction

New Drop Zone

NEW WIDGETS

Forms: Our new form widget allows you to add a “contact us” or custom form to your site. You can change almost anything in the form. Add radio buttons, specify default values, create a message that visitors see upon submitting a form, and more. Our form widget is flexible so you can get exactly the information you need from your visitors.

MP3 Player: Want users to hear music on your site? Now they can. This MP3 player drops right onto your page.

Google Translate: In this global economy, you can have visitors from Albania to Zambia and everywhere in between. With the Google Translate widget, your visitors can view your site in their language. Of course, it’s not quite a perfect translation, but it’ll get the message across.

We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for you to make a website. We love hearing what you have to say through Community Forum, Get Satisfaction, or from user research. Thanks, and keep your comments coming!

One thing that is not good and maybe needs to be fixed is the html widget....When you save the next time you use the html widget in a different spot the last code is still there....Having to delete it each time will be annoying.

Yeah,,, the Html widget is pretty ruff,, once you have deleted the script in the page you cant add your copied work. It replaces it with the script you just deleted....Not really a working widget right now.

Thanks for that. Your new widget is certainly useful but I have 3 requests for you to make it even better:
1) Allow us to switch on/off mandatory fields
2) Have some default drop-down/selection lists for us to use (e.g. country - Form Assembly offer this)
3) Box where user has to type in characters displayed on the screen (to stop auto-bots).

If I could these 3 things I'd definitely use and recommend the new form. But in any event a useful addition and certainly a good start - thanks!

Hi Sanja,
Thanks for that. I've also spotted another issue which will prevent people using it for sites they create for their clients (like I do). The form submission gets sent to your Yola profile email - you can't change the email address it gets to site by site. This is somewhat restrictive.

I've had problems using traffic counters. Every time I opened my Yola website, the counter had reset to zero so I removed it. I'm not tech savvy, especially when it comes to html coding, so it may well be something I've done while trying to load it.

Would Yola consider adding its own traffic counter widget that could simply be dragged over to a web page?

Adding a hit counter to your site is an easy, but not necessarily the most effective, way to track the visitors to your site. A service like Google Analytics gives you far more detailed and useful information about the visitors to your site, and it has the added advantage of only being accessible to you in your private account. To learn how to add Google Analytics, follow this link Adding Analytics

I use Google Analytics and it is awesome! It gives you the state, the city, the country, the refferer url, and everything else! Also it has a map overlay, the absolute unique visitors, and so much more!!!

I am a bit concerned that the HTML Widget takes a long time to load in FF. Can you please try clearing the cache in your browser to see if this helps to speed up the loading time? Here's how to clear the cache: Clear Cache